big data dominance

What does Cloudera want to be when it grows up? That was the question one analyst asked Cloudera co-founder and chief strategy officer Mike Olson at the company's analyst day this week, to which Olson responded, 'We want to be the big data company' -- not any big data company, but the big data company

By some measures, Cloudera is well on its way toward the goal, with competitors like Pivotal dropping their Hadoop ambitions -- which led Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly to effectively declare victory

But in fact, the market is still wide open

The dawn of big data Hadoop creator and Cloudera chief architect Doug Cutting made the point himself: Hadoop adoption has been doubling each year, which means half the users are newbies

As such, it's not surprising that 'lots of Hadoop use is early-stage.'